“The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.”

“Look, technology is another word for tool. There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. We got past that. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.”

“Friday, don't despise assassins indiscriminately. As with any tool, merit or demerit lies in how it is used.”

“The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.”

“They gave us the language but it is only we who know how to use it”

“Jesus told us that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us.”

“The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!”

“How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.”

“Men, knowing not how to handle the tool of the mind, have become used to leaning on others and on habit; and, owing to that, this splendid tool, the human mind, has in fact become unreliable through neglect.”

“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.”